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Judge Challenges
BBC's Judgment

By

Charles Goldsmith Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 15, 2003 7:11 p.m. ET

LONDON -- The British Broadcasting Corp.'s management oversight and editorial judgment came under sharp challenge from the judge overseeing an inquiry into the apparent suicide of government weapons expert David Kelly.

Greg Dyke, the BBC's director general, acknowledged at the inquiry that he was unaware for "several weeks" of the details of a BBC report that claimed the British government had "sexed up" intelligence to make the case for war in Iraq. On several occasions, the judge or his lead counsel...